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MUSC& 221: Ear Training 4

2 Cr
Quarters: F
This course is designed to prepare students in singing, sight singing, and dictation skills necessary for the performance and teaching of tonal music.  A focus will be on moderate rhythmic dictation, interval, compound conducting patterns, solfege/note names, scales, M m + * chords including V7 with inversions, 2-voice melodic dictation in a 4-part texture with chordal analysis, moderate chordal progressions, cadences, and practical keyboard applications.  This course supplements corresponding music theory and will serve as a lab reinforcing the aural components.  This is the fourth in a sequence of six classes required for all music majors pursuing a Music AA-DTA.                          
Prerequisite: Completion of MUSC& 123  with a grade of C or better.
Distribution for DTA: Humanities